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Placodonts ("tablet teeth") are an
extinct order of
marine reptiles that
lived during the Tri****ic period,
becoming extinct at the end of the period. They...
- they may be
closely related to turtles. The bulky-bodied, mollusc-eating
placodonts may also be sauropterygians, or
intermediate between the
classic eosauropterygians...
- a
classification now
cladistically obsolete), mosasaurs, nothosaurs,
placodonts, sea turtles,
thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians. Most
marine reptile...
- fenestra.
Examples of
euryapsid reptiles include ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs,
placodonts, and Trilophosaurus.
Diapsida – Two openings. A
monophyletic group including...
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placodont thus far
found in non-marine deposits,
suggesting it may have
lived in
brackish or
freshwater lagoons. Henodus, like many
other placodonts,...
- (Rhaetian). By the end of the Tri****ic, all
other sauropterygians,
including placodonts and nothosaurs, had
become extinct. At
least six
lineages of plesiosaur...
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common during the
Middle Tri****ic,
especially in the
Tethys region),
placodonts, the
earliest known herbivorous marine reptile Atopodentatus, and the...
- (most
notably ankylosaurs and stegosaurians), phytosaurs, aetosaurs,
placodonts, and
hupehsuchians (marine
reptiles with
possible ichthyosaur affinities)...
- Gr****
psepho (ψῆφος), "pebbly", and
derma (δέρμα), "skin") is a
genus of
placodonts very
similar to the
related genera Placochelys and Cyamodus. Psephoderma...
- interpretation,
Palatodonta is
transitional between placodonts and less
specialized reptiles. Like
placodonts, it has a row of
large teeth on its palate, but...
